Month: March 2015
Gun control advocacy group States United to Prevent Gun Violence recently staged a gun shop on the Lower East Side for a PSA. With its twee signage and slanted font at 149 Orchard Street, the shop presented itself like any other LES boutique, but inside, it was full of rifles and revolvers. Potential gun buyers […]
Street fights are pretty much part of the deal on the bacchanalian tradition that St. Patrick’s Day has become, but here’s one that broke out in broad daylight just outside Bryant Park. The video shows a few presumably intoxicated people attempt to fight each other. As far as St. Paddy’s Day brawls go, this one […]
George, Coney Island. (Photo: David Tan) […]
Take an unauthorized tour inside 190 Bowery, the massive six story building on Bowery and Spring with all the graffiti in it. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Gothamist has released a video in which a cat and a dog are fighting in the middle of an active intersection, while bystanders are cheering. The cat, called Heathcliff, maintains a defensive stance and fends off the dog. Neither are on a leash. A woman is seen kicking the cat repeatedly, though it’s not clear […]
Comedian Patrice O’Neal died in 2011, and now his former fiancee Von Decarlo and producer/director Mark Farrell have launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund a documentary about his life and work called Better Than You – The Official Patrice O’Neal Documentary. The producers told Indiewire: We want to do this movie the way Patrice led […]
In July of last year, talented graffiti artist Jason “DG” Wulf passed away and dedication pieces to him quickly started getting painted from Queens to Moscow. Every year, the artist collaborated with other writers to paint walls celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Recently, in the Williamsburg-Bushwick section of Brooklyn, writers RIBS, ZIM, CS, GHOST, GIZ, KITE, […]
On Tuesday, HBO released Catch the Throne, Volume II to promote the upcoming 5th season of Game of Thrones, which premieres April 12. It features new songs from Snoop Dogg, Ty Dolla $ign, Anthrax and many other rap, metal, reggaeton and pop artists; as well as a previously shared power ballad by Mastodon called “White […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Damien Mitchell. Name/Alias: Damien Mitchell Decade you were born in: ’80s City you currently live: Brooklyn Drugs or natural highs? You buyin’, I’m tryin’ How did you get your name? It’s a clever anagram of my real name: […]
Dirtbag Conservative Activist Allegedly Fired Employee Who Refused to Incite Violent Anti-Cop Speech
James O’Keefe, the right-wing’s garbage answer to both Michael Moore and Punk’d, is drawing attention again, this time for allegedly firing an employee who refused to strong-arm an operative into following a hidden-camera video script that would bait anti-police brutality protestors into making violent statements against police. His “investigative reporting”/propaganda organization Project Veritas recently used […]
